English 90 Description Essay Assignment

• Carefully choose a subject (such as a person, place, object or event) to describe.

• Write a focused, descriptive essay using approaches from three different academic disciplines using unique and precise detail.

• Look through your essay and carefully consider what point you are trying to make about the person, place, object or event and make sure all detail is connected to the point and that the point is clear to the reader.

• Then look through the essay and see if more detail is needed to make the point.

• Title the essay with a title that captures the unique essence of the essay.

• Now look through your essay (and have others do the same) and make sure you have used precise, descriptive adverbs and adjectives and active (rather than passive) verbs.

• Type Description Essay—2 to 4 pages double spaced—with the following heading:
  
  Your Name
  Sean's English 90
  Quarter Year
  Description Essay

• Fill out Description Evaluation completely (including number of points earned and precise, detailed reasons why points are deserved).

• Staple all pages together—before coming to class—and turn in on _________.